One Month Sum-Up

Whats up everybody?! Sorry for the one month delay, to be honest, I've been pretty lazy with not just blogging, but literally almost everything. So here is what I've been up to this past month:

The first weekend of November, a few of the volunteers and I hiked up Mount Gilboa - and all I can say about that is that I need to get back into shape. The hike took about an hour and fifteen minutes and bloody hell it was difficult. Coming from South Florida where all we have is flat land means that I'm not really acquainted to hiking uphill all the uneven terrain for an hour straight, but I did it! my calves, quadriceps, and hamstrings were on fire, and finally at the end I saw my savior - an ice cream truck! That truck literally saved my life (not really, I knew that I would have been just fine without the ice cream but hey, I do have a bit of a sweet-tooth - I've been eating chocolate every single day since I've arrived at this kibbutz). After resting for a bit and admiring looking past the horizon towards the Israeli & Jordanian border, I refueled on ice cream and then made my way back to the kibbutz.

The next week, I went to Tel Aviv for the day to get a haircut and to see a friend. The haircut was horrible, the barber finished too quick and left it a bit uneven and he was sort of a dick, my hair grew out now and it looks okay but I will never be going back over there to get my haircut again. And after that, all that I did was spend a few hours at Tel Aviv beach, had some shwarma, then I left and went back to the kibbutz, nothing really exciting that week. Winter is coming so I'm glad that I was able to go to the beach one last time before it gets too cold

I went back to Mount Gilboa with one of my coworkers at the dining hall the third week of November, This time it was in the evening, and we took a car (thank god) and it was really nice, we saw a fox, once the sun set the jackals started howling which I obviously took a part of, and we saw a cute little fat furry thing, I forgot the name of it but here's a picture of what it looks like.

That's about all I did outside the kibbutz this month, inside the kibbutz all that I've been doing was working every day, cleaning every once in a while, watching TV shows and movies on my computer, and working out, yes, I have started working out again, me and a few of the guys are starting to workout on a regular basis and i hope it lasts, because working out alone kills me especially when the gym that we have is basically a broken Lat-pull-down machine, a bench, and a pull up bar. I've been dreading running, this up hill runs with higher altitude and cooler air kills me, I'm not used to it but I just got to suck it up and stop complaining, I can do this, no excuses!

In other news, winter is coming, its getting cooler and the days are getting shorter, winter is also supposed to be the rainy season supposedly, it has rained a bit but nothing like Florida's rainy season yet, We really do need rain over here, it has been so dry that a few weeks ago my lips and my right hand were so dry that the skin broke and started bleeding. That has never happened to me, my body isn't used to the dry weather yet but I'll adapt.

Well, thats about it to be honest, if I'm missing anything its probably because I forgot about it, I should really keep a journal on me, anyways, in a couple of days the whole group and I will be going on a trip to Jerusalem, finally, I've been wanting to go there since I arrived in Israel, I will update my blog the weekend I get back. No more laziness.

Oh, one more thing - about the election and Trumps victory - I did vote for him and I was glad that he won, I did vote for who I thought was the lesser of the two evils and I was relieved to see his name on the news as our new president and not Hillary's. But, I did forget that I do kind of live in a socialistic compound and I learned that I'm probably the only right winged person here, so with that said, I was hated by almost everyone that knew that I had voted for him. Oh well, there's nothing I could do about it, nor do I care about the way they felt towards me. But for those who are reading this and don't agree with me: He's the president now, there's nothing that you could do about it, deal with it, calm down and lets seen what happens in these next four years. Yeah he is crazy, but she is too, give him a chance.